John asks Nerdfighters to make YouTube Video Volunteers videos for charities (2009)
ask · status: asked in 2009; no response reported · last event: reminder (2009-07-26) · owner: John and Hank
In June 2009 the brothers pointed Nerdfighters to YouTube Video Volunteers, where charities needed creative people to make videos about their work; Hank repeated the call two days later. In July 2009 John again invited Nerdfighters to make video volunteer videos.
About: YouTube Video Volunteers, YouTube
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-06-21 | asked | The brothers ask YouTubers to go to youtube.com/videovolunteers and make videos for charities that need them, hoping to see many such videos. | The World Sucks: Help it Suck Less 00:02:00 |
| 2009-06-23 (said on 2009-06-22, implied) | reminder | Hank thanks viewers for considering the Video Volunteers program and hopes to see them making video volunteer videos soon. (hedged) → refers to The World Sucks: Help it Suck Less | Fighting the Flame War! 00:03:38 |
| 2009-07-26 | reminder | John invites Nerdfighters to make video volunteer videos for charities at youtube.com/videovolunteers. | Volunteering (In Your Pants) 00:00:00 |
Dates are upload dates, which set the order. Where the speaker gives a different recording date in the video, it is added as "said on YYYY-MM-DD, implied" (derived from the date said in the video).
What is said about it
5 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2009-06-21 · The World Sucks: Help it Suck Less — announcement: Hank says he called John to help YouTube announce its new Video Volunteers program, which he says will prove how awesome YouTube can be. — 00:00:03
- 2009-06-21 · The World Sucks: Help it Suck Less — announcement: Hank announces that through YouTube's Video Volunteers program everyone in the YouTube community can partner with a nonprofit and help bring attention to its cause. — 00:01:31
- 2009-06-21 · The World Sucks: Help it Suck Less — ask: both: The brothers tell YouTube this is a chance to use video-making skills to decrease worldwide suck, and hope viewers will take it. (hedged) — 00:02:29
- 2009-07-26 · Volunteering (In Your Pants) — announcement: John says YouTube has launched a program that lets everyone help charities they like by making videos for them. — 00:00:00
- 2009-07-26 · Volunteering (In Your Pants) — ask: John invites Nerdfighters to join him in making video volunteer videos at youtube.com/videovolunteers. — 00:00:00